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TITLE: The Vision | Previous Challenge Entry
By Clyde Blakely
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I don’t know how many times over the years my wife had heard me say that. My last male good “Bible friend” was over twenty years ago and the spiritual drought weighed heavy on me. My wife had almost ceased trying to encourage me to not get depressed.
Arriving at our destination, “I need to take a nap.” Somewhere between wakefulness and sleep I had a vision. I was looking down from above and behind on a young couple holding hands walking along a road. I somehow knew the couple was my wife and me. Her hair was back to her original blond and I had hair. Slowly, pleasantly we strolled together.
A flood on emotions came at once. Multiple emotions but not chaotic and each one was distinct and easy to discern: there was peace, a pure, deep, pleasant peace; innocence as is experienced in childhood; love, a kind I can’t describe adequately, not like anything I have felt here on earth; grace and mercy permeated the surroundings; acceptance, with nothing in between; and friendship, I knew we were no longer married but we were friends, friends forever. As if God wanted me to be confident of what I was envisioning and experiencing, my attention was directed to the road. It was gold and clear as glass. Not translucent, clear as glass as the Bible describes it in Revelation (chapter 21, verses 18 and 21). Thus God gave me a final and complete assurance that what I was seeing was my wife and me in heaven in the future, as friends forever. I awoke and remembered our Bible conversations and occasional debates. I placed my arms around her and thanked her for being my wife and friend and apologized for not recognizing she had been someone I talked “Bible” with over the decades of our marriage.
That vision has become a relaxing aspect for our marriage. Did all those emotions somehow integrate into our earthy marriage? Well, not completely, but it has given us the restful, spiritual hope that our friendship will be deeper and eternal through Jesus. I thank Him quite often for that vision and it has not faded over time, often coming to my remembrance.
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